2012-30 AMENDING CITY CODE - CHAPTER 48 - NUISANCES

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may be abated by the City without notice, and the expense thereof is recoverable from the person who may have created, continued or suffered such nuisance to exist, and is a lien on the premises on which such nuisance was found, in addition to any fine or penalty. (Amended, Ordinance No. 92-20, March 30, 1992) 4. DISCLOSURE OF PRINCIPAL. Every agent or other person having charge, control or management or who collects or receives the rents of any lands, premises, or other property in the City, shall disclose the name of the person for whom such agent or other person is acting upon demand of any inspector or agent of the City. 5. USE OF PREMISES. No person owning or in possession, charge or control of any building or premises shall use the same, or permit the same to be used, for any business or employment or any purpose, if such use shall, from its boisterous nature, disturb or destroy the peace of the neighborhood or shall be dangerous or detrimental to health, or shall be the occasion of any nuisance. 6. SEWER SERVICE LINES. All lawful privy vaults, septic tanks, cesspools and sewer service lines shall be so maintained that they shall not become foul or emit offensive odors prejudicial to the public health, and further that the contents thereof shall not be permitted to leak from nor be closer than two feet to the surface of the earth. A privy vault, cesspool or sewer service line located, maintained or permitted to become foul or filled in violation hereof is hereby declared to be a public nuisance and may be abated as such by the City Manager. 7. ABANDONED EXCAVATION. Any well, cistern, hole, pit, pool or similar structure, or abandoned excavation or shaft that is open and easily accessible to children or passers-by and/or of sufficient depth or steepness to endanger their safety, or any undrained and abandoned excavation or pool, is hereby declared to be a nuisance.